Shadowboxing is an exercise used in the training for combat sports, especially, as its name implies, in boxing. It is used mainly to prepare the muscles before the person training engages in stronger physical activity. In shadowboxing, only one person is required to participate; the participant throws punches at no one in particular.

This is the most common definition, however; the question that we would like to answer, and this video helps us find out, is how can we adapt shadow boxing to the street?

More importantly, how can shadow boxing help us in a self-defense situation? Enter Master Ken.

Most boxing trainers prefer that their fighters do their shadow boxing before engaging in any other daily exercise routines. The main purpose of this exercise, apart from getting the muscles ready for another activity, is usually to maintain a fighter’s rhythm and show the fighter how they would look at that stage of training against a certain opponent. This could be important as fighters envision themselves facing their immediate future opponents: it usually gives fighters an idea of what is, and what is not, to be fixed.

Fighters may want to do some shadowboxing of their own after their daily routines are over, either inside a boxing gym’s ring, or wherever they please to at home without having to look directly at a mirror.

Now, all of the aforementioned is important and very useful information, however; it doesn’t quite answer the question that we first posed. For that, please check out the video below as Master Ken expertly and eloquently teaches us his secrets of shadow boxing for the street.

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Jacob C. Stevens is a lifelong athlete and cerebral martial arts enthusiast who is also skilled in the art of linguistic manipulation, his published work, Afterthoughts and Handgrenades, can be found here…